cheese flan

Stephen Von Stetina

Cheese Flan A La Mami (Mami's Puerto Rican cheese flan)

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Author: Stephen Von Stetina

Cook time: 1 H & 15 MTotal time: 1 H & 15 M

This is my mother-in-law's recipe (slightly modified) that is always a hit at any gathering. My wife and I make it together, it's super easy and super delicious. It has even won an award (Harvard MCB dept best in show baking)

Ingredients

Flan

• 4 eggs
• 1 package of cream cheese, softened (can use 1/3 less fat cream cheese if want to be a bit healthier)
• 1 can Eagle Brand sweetened condensed milk
• 1 1/4 can Carnation evaporated milk (2% evaporated milk will work too)
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract

Caramel

• 1 cup granulated sugar

Protocol

Caramel

1. Pour 1 cup sugar into pan/pot over burner at medium heat (don't use non-stick).
2. Without stirring let it get warm until sugar begins to brown.
3. Once most of the sugar is melted, use a fork to smash any remains clumps of sugar and lift pan off heat to gently swirl pan to finish melting.
4. Quickly pour caramel into bottom of 8x8 baking dish (we use disposable aluminum kind, but can use glass dish as well).

Flan

1. Mix all flan ingredients in blender until combined and no chunks of cream cheese are left (do not over mix).
2. Pour mix into baking pan with caramel.
3. Bake flan for 50-60 minutes (or until toothpick comes out clean) in a "bain-marie" bath. The "bain-marie" bath is key for a good flan! (I use a lasagna glass casserole dish with water that will cover 1/3 of aluminum container).

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